When globalization comes to music, are its virtues highlighted, or obscured? "Something I’d love to see would be a way for, say, young African producers to sell beats directly to a global d.j. audience via their phone. All the technology is in place, phone payments are already quite popular across the region. Some of the most exciting music being made right now is produced by people who can’t capitalize on the fact that they can reach a weirdly scattered microaudience of d.j.s and music fans around the world." Say a producer (call him Diplo) pays 10 musicians living in 3rd world countries 10 dollars per day (a potential windfall in the relative economies many countries) to send him ideas/tracks/beats/samples, which he uses to create songs that score cell phone commercials, which in turn make him first-world rich. How would we feel about that?
Posted on: Thu, 15 Aug 2013 04:02:22 +0000
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